Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by just [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care . |
| 2 | Indeed , in the best of all possible media worlds , all rapes and sexual assaults would be committed by just a few sexual maniacs and the press could then help to orchestrate the national search against these declared aliens in our midst . |
| 3 | ‘ This is n't as lot of work if many people are involved , but it can not be done by just a handful . ’ |
| 4 | Individual ants , misled in this way , fail to reach their holes but go to a point in the desert that is displaced by just the amount that the sun 's image was shifted by the mirror . |
| 5 | It 's charged by just a one litre petrol or diesel generator . |
| 6 | By having the paragraphs indexed as node-link-node triples , one gets better insight into the relationship between the paragraph and the semantic net than when the paragraph is indexed by just a node name . |
| 7 | When the 1983 demonstration arrived outside the CEGB , it was witnessed by just a handful of press : foreign TV , the Guardian , the Morning Star , and local radio . |
| 8 | The speaker who complained at the burden on small businesses was clapped by just a handful . |
| 9 | Last night , a move to introduce such a scheme was defeated by just a dozen votes . |